This project in the publishing field was carried out under the management of the teacher Mario Piazza.
The aim of the project was to create a new edition of a book, telling the story not only with the words
of the writer but also by using visual tools.
This visual part doesn’t describe the story but should create a parallel narrative line that explores
and brings to light core aspects of the story. The book chosen for the thesis was “The return”, by Oscar Peer.
The novel tells about a man who lives in a small village in the mountains of Switzerland.
Hidden in the storytelling, there are deep topics, emotions, sensations, psychological moods
that the visual path wants to analyze and transmit.
The chosen language is the photographic one for the strong relationship between the story and the places where the story occurs. Only photography can be concrete and expressive at the same time, able to transmit sensations and feelings.
Pictures are organized in pair, associated by contrast or metaphor, conceptual and visual.